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9/11Copyright vs Community with Cory Doctorow
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- 2004
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- copyright, community, corydoctorow
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- Ravensbourne College
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Copyright was developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.
The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright to promote progress, for the benefit of the public then we must make changes in the other direction
A working days worth of lectures around the tensions between copyright and community - http://cubicgarden.com/copyright
The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright to promote progress, for the benefit of the public then we must make changes in the other direction
A working days worth of lectures around the tensions between copyright and community - http://cubicgarden.com/copyright
